fter demolition is
completed, a courtyard area filled with
benches and greenery will replace the ‘Old
Scrubber’ that became extensively corroded more
than a decade ago.
Gar y Reed, the direc-

tor of the Facilities Planning and Management Office, said the sulfur dioxide
scrubber system was built
in 1986, about two years
after Illinois decided to recommission coal-fired facilities at higher education institutions.

At the time, Eastern had
switched to burning natural
gas since 1969, but because
of volatile natural-gas prices, reverting back to coal
seemed like a viable economic decision, Reed said.

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The front entrance of Booth Library on Monday was filled with everything from gourds and Jell-O to
French fries and pie.
The foods were all part of the Edible Book Festival, which kicked off
National Library Week.
The Edible Book Festival came
to Eastern last year after the coordinator Todd Bruns went to a similar
event at University of Wisconsin.
Bruns said he wanted to bring the
festival to Eastern because he has
not seen anything here like it before.
There were two more entrants
than last year, one of which was a
student.
Bruns said he hopes more students will participate in the upcoming years.
There were two “The Hunger
Games” entries this year.
“When an event is annual, the
new entries makes it fresh,” Bruns
said.
“The Life of Pie,” created by Billy
Hung, a biological sciences professor, said thinking of something to
make was easy.
“It’s part of the fun, seeing where
people take the concept,” Hung
said.
Hung said the only thing he can
bake is pie, so all he had to do was
find a book.

Other edible artworks included
“Where’s My Cow?” where an unwrapped fast food burger was missing its meat with a question mark
on the bun; “I Made a Chocolate
Pie Just for You” based off “The
Help” was a chocolate pie that had
something that looked like human
excrement on top of it; and “A BeDazzling Display of Dogs” with hot
dogs covered in fake jewels.
Awards were given out for People’s Choice, Dean’s Choice, Best
Student Entry, Best Entry from a
Family and Best Entry Based on a
Children’s Book. The festival also
ran a slideshow from other edible
artworks from around the world.
The winner of the Dean’s Choice
Award went to “Yertle the Turtle”
created by Jacqui Worden, a retired
Eastern employee, and family member Dustin Brewer. The runner-up
was “20,000 Leaks Under the Sea.”
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Sophomore Eastern Student and Pride member Molly Ferris lectures about the transgender community Monday
at 6:30 p.m. in Roberson Auditorium during “T-Time with Molly.” Topics that were discussed included common
misconceptions and little-known facts regarding people who are transgender. The event was one of the first to
kick off Eastern's chapter of Pride Week.

The idea that gender is not biologically decided like physical sex,
but is decided upon by the person,
is what sophomore Molly Ferris
wanted audience members to think
about on Monday.
Ferris, a sophomore psychology major, talked to audience members about issues that are faced by
transgender people during her presentation “T-Time with Molly,” a
Pride Week event.
“ Transgender is an umbrella
term that encompasses many other
terms,” Ferris said. “It encompasses any individual that crosses their
traditional gender roles.”
Ferris started by passing out
index cards and asked audience
members to write down the pronoun that they identify with, such
as he, she, it or they.
There are also gender-neutral
pronouns like hir, ze, zei, they or
Mx. for Mr. and Mrs.
“I want people to know a little bit more about transgender so
they know to ask the right questions and be inclusive and maybe

be a trans ally,” Ferris said. “I tried
to throw out a lot of open-ended
questions, because I want people to
think.”
Becca Levine, a junior English
major, said she learned a lot that
would benefit her when she became a teacher.
“The part about being inclusive
was helpful,” Levine said. “Also the
part about the pronouns was helpful because I don’t want to offend
anyone if they identify as transgender in my classroom.”
Ferris also had audience members sit as a stereotypical male or
female to show the common idea
of how people restricted based on
their genders.
Fe r r i s a l s o s a i d t h e e xe rc i s e
showed how geographic location
changes how people are allowed
to act especially when it has to do
with gender.
“How many female-identifiers
are wearing pants? Yeah, you all
are cross dressing in a lot of countries,” Ferris said. “Even in some
places you are transcending boundaries in certain countries and it depends on where you are.”

REPERCUSSIONS
Eastern students
react to high school
student's expulsion
By Kathryn Richter &
Felicia Darnell
City Editor
& Staff Reporter

An Indiana high school student was recently expelled from
his high school after tweeting expletives, MSNBC reported.
T h e c a s e o f Ga r re t t Hi g h
School senior Austin Carroll has
been in the headlines of almost
every major news organization.
Eastern students reacted to
the news of Carroll’s expulsion
and the surrounding free speech
case that has erupted because of
it.
Rachel Jennett, a senior special education major, said she
believes school has nothing to do
with a student’s personal social
media websites.
“I think social networking is a
totally different world,” Jennett
said. “It has nothing to do with

schools. It’s OK to say what
you want as long as it’s not a
threat to anybody.”
Nicole Makowan, a sophomore family and consumer
sciences major, said the case
is a violation of freedom of
speech if the material in question is not a threat.
C h r i s Pa n k ow, a s e n i o r
communications studies major, said it is the student’s responsibility to know what
they are getting into when it
comes to social media.
“I think schools should let
students post what they want
to post,” Pankow said.
Taylor Wilson, a senior special
education major, said she feels it
is up to the parents to moderate
what their child is doing on social media sites.
I think it’s the parent's right
unless (the students are) doing it
on school time,” he said
Wilson also said the school’s
monitoring the student’s social
media sites violates their privacy
and freedom of speech.
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speech,” Wilson said.
Tyson Holder, a student affairs graduate student, said he
feels it is the parent’s place to react to the situation, considering
the tweet did not pose a threat
to anyone or happen during
school hours.
Holder said it would have
been better if the school administration had been proactive instead of reactive by having Carroll speak to a school counselor
or bringing his parents in for a
conference.

“It’s kind of trampling against
his free speech,” Holden said.
Jesse Garibaldi, a senior elementary education major, said
since the tweet happened off
school property, it should not be
considered a school issue.
“I think it’s kind of inappropriate,” Garibaldi said.
Kathryn Richter
and Felicia Darnell
can be reached at 581-2812
or kjrichter@eiu.edu.

C AMPUS

Habitat for Humanity to build shanty town
By Jordan Thiede
Staff Reporter

Those who are more privileged
will be able to see how the other
half lives when members of Eastern’s Habitat for Humanity chapter participate in building a shanty town.
Habitat members organized
this to help raise awareness of the
problems faced by those who are
homeless or forced to live in inadequate housing.
The event is par t of “Act!
Speak! Build! Week” and will be
just one of numerous events Habitat for Humanity has organized.
Kateri Tonyan, a senior biological sciences major and the public relations officer for Eastern’s
Habitat for Humanity chapter,
helped to organize the event.

Tonyan said this event could
possibly open people’s eyes to the
problems of those who are facing
these dilemmas.
“I hopes it makes people more
aware of homelessness and inadequate housing. I think a lot
of people don’t realize how serious the problem is,” Tonyan said.
“Could you imagine five people living in this space, because it
happens all the time.”
She said this project will begin at 10 a.m. on Thursday in the
South Quad when Habitat members start preparing for the night’s
event by building shanties.
Habitat members will then
start to camp out later in the evening. The event will go on all
through the night and end Friday
morning.
Tonyan said three students will

be staying in the Shantytown all
night, while others will come and
go sporadically.
She said this event is something that requires a good deal
of planning on the part of Habitat members along with the help
they received from the Newman
Catholic Center.
Matt Short, a junior accounting major, is currently the president-elect of Eastern’s Habitat for
Humanity chapter.
Short said he also believes it is
important to get the message out
about how many people this crisis affects.
“There are 1.6 billion people
that live in substandard housing,”
he said. “Thirty-two percent of
people live in urban slums.”
Although members of Eastern’s
Habitat for Humanity chapter

are organizing this event, Tonyan
said anyone who is interested in
the Shantytown project or any of
the other events that will be taking place this week is welcomed
to join in.
Short also said anyone who
is not a member is welcomed to
get involved, especially since the
group has not received much outside support in the past.
“I think a lot of students don’t
even know Eastern has a Habitat for Humanity chapter,” Short
said. “I hope this will get more
people involved in Habitat for
Humanity overall. We definitely
want people to stop by.”
Jordan Thiede can
be reached at 581-2812
or jethiede@eiu.edu.

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Theatre
to perform
‘Godspell’
By Kathryn Richter
City Editor

stories are interwoven that tell EIU’s
story.”
Erickson said since beginning the
exhibit research and design last August, the historical administration students have become protective of their
project as well as eager to share their
findings with the general public.
“We want people to be able to see
the connections to Eastern’s past and
see themselves in the exhibit,” Erickson said. “We compare it to the process of becoming new parents.”
Sauer affirmed Erickson’s sentiments.
“These exhibits are our children,”
Sauer said.

The Charleston Community Theatre will perform the musical “Godspell” on the weekend of April 20.
The director of the musical, Cathy
Sheagren, said directing the musical
has been something she has wanted to
do for a while.
“I had wanted to do the show for
a long time,” Sheagren said. “It’s a really great musical with awesome music in it.”
Sheagren said the Charleston
Community Theatre usually performs
at Eastern’s Tarble Arts Center; however, Sheagren said she approached
her church, Wesley United Methodist Church, to host the performance.
Sheagren said she thought the timing of the show was right to present
the story of “Godspell.” Sheagren
said the musical explores the Gospel
of Matthew and the story of the New
Testament.
“It’s more than that,” Sheagren said
“‘Godspell’ is about community; it’s
about the formation of a community.”
Sheagren also said the musical is
not just for those who are religious.
“I don’t think the musical is meant
to be for people who are overly religious,” Sheagren said. “I think ‘Godspell’ speaks to everyone.”
Sheagren said the show is comprised of a cast of about 29 people
from all walks of life.
“It would make sense to include
people of all ages in the show,” Sheagren said.
Sheagren said the cast includes a
core cast of 15 people, a children’s
chorus of 10 and an adults chorus of
four members.
“Every ‘Godspell’ cast is a little different,” Sheagren said. “You can kind
of play with it and have fun with it.”
Sheagren said it made sense to include many different types of people,
considering the theme of the show is
about community.
Sheagren also said “Godspell” is
one of the hardest productions that
she has ever directed.
“It’s one of the hardest things I
think I’ve ever done,” Sheagren said.
Sheagren said the show was particularly hard for her because she felt the
need to be creative with choreographing and mapping out actor’s movements on stage.
The majority of rehearsals were devoted to choreography and mapping
the movements of the actors, she said.
The Rev. Ken Hull, voice coach
for the production and a cast member, said the cast working together has
made the actors excited about presenting the message of the show.
Hull also said he was happy with
the sound of the show.
“We have such a talented group of
singers,” he said. “so it makes my job
easy.”
Sheagren also said the proceeds of
the show will go to the Charleston
Food Pantry.
“People have been really awesome
about donating time and help,” Sheagren said. “It’s really been almost
more than a person can take in. It’s
been really positive.”

Andrew Crivilare can
be reached at 581-2812
or ajcrivilare@eiu.edu.

Kathryn Richter can
be reached at 581-2812
or kjrichter@eiu.edu.

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Members of Christian Campus House and many other students go without shoes April 5, 2011, in the South Quad. Their participation was part of a national program with TOMS Shoes to help promote awareness of children in the world who go without shoes every day.

Students raise more than
$3,000 for TOMS campaign
By Samantha Bilharz
Managing Editor

Seventy-seven Eastern students purchased TOMS shoes to paint today for
the “Design Your Sole” event, which
raised more than $3,000.
In addition, today marks the fifth
year of TOMS’ “One Day Without
Shoes” campaign, and Eastern students
are painting their own TOMS and
marching around campus barefoot.
“One Day Without Shoes” is meant
to allow more affluent people the ability to walk a mile in a more impoverished person’s shoes while raising
awareness of global poverty.
The $3,000 raised guarantees 77
children in third-world countries shoes
for a lifetime.
Kirstin Bowns, the “Design Your
Sole” coordinator and a resident assistant in Lawson Hall, said she thought

of the “Design Your Sole” idea last year
when she participated in the “One
Day Without Shoes” event on campus.
“Last year, I walked around barefoot (for ‘One Day Without Shoes’),
and I did it because I heard it from
my friends and I learned about the
movement and decided I wanted to do
something more,” Bowns said.
Eastern students were able to buy
TOMS to paint at a discounted price
of $40 because so many students ordered them, Bowns said.
“Design Your Sole” will take place
at 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today in the
Oakland Room of the Martin Luther
King Jr. University Union.
During this time, students will be
able to decorate their TOMS, and
Bowns said she encourages students to
show up to the event barefoot.
Bowns said she expects a few hundred people to walk around campus

barefoot.
“When we started advertising the
event and selling shoes, I saw that
we were educating people who didn’t
know about it in the first place, and
I think this event will get a lot more
people to participate,” she said.
Bowns said as soon as the students
are done painting their TOMS, she is
going to get a group together to march
around campus barefoot for the “One
Day Without Shoes” event.
Even though TOMS’ “One Day
Without Shoes” campaign has taken
place for five years, it has only been active on Eastern’s campus for three.
“It’s just one day out of the entire
year, and one day can really inspire
other people to be aware of the issue
and the movement, and it can change
a child’s life,” Bowns said.
Bowns, a senior sociology major,
said she thinks her major has helped

open her eyes to a multitude of diverse
social issues.
“In sociology, we study societies and
how they work and their interactions
with people,” Bowns said. “A big part
of (sociology) is social inequality, and
studying that has shown me the huge
disparities in poverty and has opened
my eyes to it all.”
Bowns said she thinks the events are
a new and interesting approach to promote a larger discussion.
“I hope it makes (students) realize how privileged they are and how
they are able to have an education and
the basic needs to do every day tasks,”
Bowns said. “I really hope it makes
them realize that just one small act can
really make a difference.”
Samantha Bilharz can
be reached at 581-2812
or slbilharz@eiu.edu.

EXHIBIT

Grad students to exhibit Eastern’s history
By Andrew Crivilare
Staff Reporter

Less than a year ago, all but a few of
the students enrolled in the historical
administration program had ever been
on Eastern’s campus.
Today, they are the leading force behind finding the forgotten stories and
memories of the university and putting them on display for the community to see.
The students’ culminating exhibit, “Building Memories: Creating a
Campus Community,” will be on display and open to the public at 7 p.m.
on Thursday in Booth Library where
the students will be on hand to present their research and field questions
from guests.
Becky Leedy, a graduate student,

said the exhibit stands out from past
history projects at Eastern by drawing material from former students and
staff who have chosen to share their
own experiences at Eastern.
“We’re taking a look at how aspects
of Eastern’s history have been remembered,” Leedy said. “Then we’re looking at it through building names or
monuments on campus.”
Among the pieces of forgotten history on display are the story of a baby
raised by the family and consumer sciences department, Napoleon the
Campus Dog and a short-lived group
known as the Mustache Club.
Aurora Erickson, a graduate student, said the Mustache Club was one
of her favorite parts.
“We found a picture of it in the
1904 yearbook,” Erickson said. “We’re

thinking about reviving it.”
Samantha Sauer, a graduate student,
said using familiar locations and landmarks on campus as a frame of reference for the exhibit can get students
interested in a topic that otherwise
may seem uninteresting.
“People pass these buildings each
day without thinking of the people behind them,” Sauer said. “Some people
might find history boring; this makes
it more personable.”
Alan Hanson, a graduate student,
said the exhibit seeks to take a comprehensive view of the university’s history,
even the generally forgotten parts, in
order to understand how Eastern became the college it is today.
“A lot of what we look at focuses
from the university’s founding to its
present,” Hanson said. “A lot of the

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COLUMN

In March, the Student Senate decided
to limit the tuition waiver the executives
and the Student Senate Speaker receive
to a $2,500 stipend instead of receiving a
12-credit hour waiver.
As we reported April 4, student executives who came to Eastern in the 20102011 year would be receiving $31 less per
week, going from $170 to $139.
This decrease in compensation seems
like a great idea, considering the miniscule
amount of work they are required to put
in each week—a mere five hours.
We are sure that most would agree that
$139 a week for five hours of work is a
pretty sweet deal.
That’s because it is. This is horridly
unbalanced when compared with students
who spend grueling hours every day to
make minimum wage.
An average student making minimum
wage on campus would have to work
about 20 hours a week for $2,970 a semester.
A student worker putting in four times
as many hours a week as student government executives would only make $470
more than they would a semester.
We struggle to comprehend how the
executives could even begin to defend the
amount they are paid.
The reward for serving as a student government executive has clearly outpaced
what should be the job’s main reward: the
opportunity to serve the student body and
gain experience.
The value of the opportunity should be
worth more than the fiscal incentives.
That is true at The News. Our Editor in
Chief makes $2,080 per semester, $1,000
of which comes from a grant. She estimates she works at least 35 hours per week
for $135.
The rest of the editorial board makes
between $30-$55 per week for at least 25
hours of work.
Nobody in this newsroom is here for
the money. Which is not to say we’re in
any way perfect. Nor are we playing the
martyr. We are here because we want to
be—because the work we do has value far
greater than our paychecks.
We have seen the amount of work student government executives do for their
pay, and we are inclined to wonder if more
appropriate compensation might weed out
those who are less committed to the larger
purpose of their positions.
Money corrupts politics at all levels for
the same reason: It gives incentive to insulate, to sit still and not make any waves.
Disaffected voters are a well-paid politician’s best friend.
Perhaps this is why student government, once a proud institution and the
center of student activism, has become an
irrelevant, ineffectual body where elections
are for show.
Nice work, if you can get it.

you give us too much credit.
Two bills are working their way through the
Illinois House that specifically address the state’s
most urgent concern: reproductive rights.
HB 4085, also known as the “Ultrasound Opportunity Act” (see, they’re for opportunity!),
would require doctors to offer a woman an ultrasound exam before proceeding with an abortion.
If the woman declines the ultrasound, she has to
sign a form that will be collected and stored by
the state.
To be clear: Illinois law already requires physicians to provide ultrasounds to women seeking abortions upon request. And a lot of abortion providers, like Planned Parenthood, perform
ultrasounds before every abortion to see how far
along the pregnancy is.
HB 4085 would not make a single ultrasound available that isn’t already. The ultrasound,
which in most cases would need to be invasive
(to see the tiny fetus), has no medical benefit
for the woman. It is purely for emotional effect.
The bill’s only purpose is to shame women out
of having abortions, and make very clear that the
shame is coming from the state.
The GOP’s “women problem” is not a liberal canard. It is the product of a worldview that

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on Women: Now at a legislature near you
Executives get War
From “Personhood” bills in Mississippi to vaggenerally cater to low-income patients and are
inal probes in Virginia, Republican state legislanot flush with cash. By imposing building codes
$139/week for tures across the nation can’t keep their minds, or
that require the facilities to widen hallways, build
their bills, out of the gutter. If you harbored any
extra exits and add electrical outlets, the state can
illusions
that
the
people
of
Illinois
are
more
enshut down clinics that can’t afford to remodel.
next to nothing lightened than our backward Southern brethren,
It isn’t part of some health care facility over-

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sees women as quaint, fragile homemakers whose
weak minds are under constant assault from the
lesbian “feminazi” (Limbaugh’s term) influence
to kill their babies and get full-time jobs.
This bill works only in a world where women haven’t gone through the deep emotional decision, saved up money and taken time off work
to have the procedure—where they just wander in on a whim until a doctor says, “But that’s
a baby!”
In the real world, it’s emotional abuse and the
documentation is an invasion of privacy.
In classic GOP-Freudian style, the bill was
passed through the Illinois House Agriculture
Committee, which normally considers legislation
regulating domestic farm animals. You know I
didn’t have to make that up.
HB 4117, also pending in the House, would
require facilities that perform 50 or more abortions per year to comply with the building codes
of a small hospital. This tactic has been used to
shut down abortion clinics in several other Midwestern states. Clinics that provide abortions

haul, either. HB 4117 applies only to abortion
facilities. Change the word “abortion” to “surgery,” and it would close physicians’ offices all
over the state, including most plastic surgery providers.
Republicans would love to pretend that talk of
a “GOP war on women” is a misleading Democratic construct that attempts to brand the party with the foaming sexism of Rush Limbaugh or
medieval gender roles of Rick Santorum.
Republicans only have themselves to blame,
having dragged up an issue the rest of us thought
was mostly settled. The 2010 crowd showed up
on day one with axes, grindstones and mommy
issues at the ready.
For years, Republican voters have demanded
purity of convictions above all else. They’ve gotten their wish. The new guys aren’t pandering,
they’re the real deal. They are crystallizing the insipid invective of the far-right into the insidious actions of the state. They may set us back 50
years in a single term. Imagine what they would
undo with a second.
Dave Balson is a senior journalism major.
He can be reached at 581-7942
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They just don’t make Superchicks like they used to
This weekend, I’ll be among costumed vigilantes, Time Lords, Orcs, Jedis, Cylons, Trekkies
and mutants. Some people call them nerds. I call
them my people.
For the second year in a row, I’ll be attending
the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo.
This is my holy weekend.
I’ve never been embarrassed to be a female
who admits she loves reading comic books (if
anything, I probably talk waaaaaay too much
about it). But before I depart to spend an Illinois-deficit-worthy amount of money on comic
book swag, I want to reflect on how big of an influence comics have had on me as a female.
Yep. Shelley is about to wear her ovaries on
the outside again. You’ve been warned.
It may be unconventional (as is my nature),
but the first female role model in my life was not
my mother or sister. It was a fictional character—Rogue from the X-Men. The girl could fly,
had envious Southern sass, could smash things
and had the same fondness for consuming mass
quantities of smoked meats as I did. She was the
queen of my heart.
Besides trying to mold my appearance after
female heroines (I may or may not have almost
burned off my eyebrow with peroxide when I
was 5 trying to bleach my hair like Rogue’s—yay
parental supervision!), I molded parts of my personality after them.
If you’ve read the “X-Men” comics or watched

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the cartoon (and NOT the Bryan Singer/Brett
Ratner franchise train wreck that essentially massacred my favorite character), you’d know that
Rogue does not take crap from anyone. And
why would she? Thanks to her absorption powers, she possesses superhuman strength and invulnerability.
But from Rogue, I learned that even though a
woman could have an impenetrable exterior, she
can be extremely vulnerable on this inside.
Since then, I’ve idolized several female comics
characters—Snow White from Bill Willingham’s
“Fables,” Agent 355 from Brian K. Vaughan’s
“Y: The Last Man,” Death from Neil Gaiman’s
“Sandman,” the list goes on and on.
But of course, not all authors are as kind to
females. In 1994, writer Ron Marz introduced
DC’s newest Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner (my
personal favorite), along with his girlfriend, Alex
DeWitt. At first, Alex showed potential to be a
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aging Kyle to use the power of the ring responsibly. However, DC shot that horse in the face by
doing something that even surprised me. They
had GL villian Major Force brutally murder Alex
AND THEN stuff her body in a refrigerator. I
can’t make this noise up.
But stuffing a woman in a refrigerator isn’t the
worst thing you can do to a character, it turns
out. After their recent “New 52” reboot, comics publisher DC definitely took some truly …
er … artistic measures with one of my favorite characters: Starfire. OK, Starfire has a pretty
flawed history to begin with—sister sold her into
slavery, two failed marriages and a costume that
would make Power Girl look modest. However,
in the new series, “Red Hood And The Outlaw,”
Starfire practically boasts herself as a sex object.
Don’t get me wrong—I’m all for a woman being assertive about her sexuality. However, when
this assertiveness becomes all-out trashy and demeaning, the line has to be drawn.
So what idea does it give to young female
comic readers when they see this (granted, it
does have a “T” rating)? It just saddens me to
know my niece may not have that strong, female
character to hope to embody when she reads a
comic book like I did when I was young.
Shelley Holmgren is a senior journalism major.
She can be reached at 581-7942
or DENopinions@gmail.com.

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In celebration of Asian Heritage
Month, the Tarble Arts Center is displaying its first Indian folk art exhibit,
which is running from March 10 until May 27.
In addition to the exhibit, there
will be a guided tour and discussion
today from 10 to 11 a.m.
Kit Morice, the curator of education at Tarble Arts Center, worked
with Bernard Cesarone, the curator
of the exhibit, to bring folk art from
three different regions in India to
Eastern.
Originally conceived as a session
for local fifth-grade students, the exhibit is now open to the public.
“We were working with the Academy of Life to help give younger students a sample of different cultures
and their unique art styles,” Morice
said.
Those who attend this exhibit will
be treated to an introduction to each
of the three regions of Northeast India: Noya Village, Orissa and Mithila.
Morice said the tour will begin
with paintings from the Noya Village, called patas, or scroll paintings.
The scroll paintings are “intended
to accompany the singing of narratives, the paintings are unrolled to illustrate successive incidents recounted in the song,” according to the exhibit’s brochure.
These scrolls portray anything
from Hindu epics and mythology
to local legends of folk deities. The
scroll paintings use bright, flat colors
to illustrate these events.
“ Yo u c a n s e e h ow w i t h p a tas paintings that there has been
a translation into more modern
times,” Morice said. “It isn’t just
constrained to non-secular themes.”
After the Noya Village, Morice
said those in attendance will be

India folk art exhibit
• What- Indian folk art exhibit
• Where- Tarble Arts Center
• When- guided tour today from 10
to 11 a.m. in addition to the exhibit
which will be up until May 27.

shown paintings of the Orissa region, called patachitras, or paintings on cloth.
These paintings are usually associated with the cult of Jagannath,
the temple of the god Vishnu.
The Jagannath Temple rests in
the town of Puri, and every year
thousands of pilgrims make their
way to this holy site to pray to
Vishnu.
Artists in Puri try to sell their
paintings of the temple as a memento of each person’s voyage.
“Going to the Jagannath Temple
is to the Hindu culture like what
going to Mecca is for the Islamic
culture,” Morice said.
She said this section will offer
people not only a glimpse at the
Hindu culture’s holiest site, but also
a new type of art experience in the
patachitras.
Finally, participants will reach
the section of Mithila, which lies in
present-day Bihar. This art, called
Madhubani, has been practiced for
centuries, and are all either wall or
floor paintings. Each painting depicts domestic rituals performed by
the women of Mithila.
This section offers a look at the
daily lives of people from Mithila.
From the chores that may have
to be completed, to gods that they
worship, this section helps show
what surrounds their daily life.
The tour is free and will begin in
the Tarble Arts Center at 10 a.m.
Bobby Galuski can be reached
at 581-2812 or rggaluski@eiu.edu.

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Rachel Ashley, 10, and her sister Tessa, 6, of Charleston, look at an edible representation of Dr. Seuss' "Yertle the
Turtle" by Jackie Worden and Dustin Brewer Monday at the Edible Book Fair in Booth Library. The display won the
Dean's Prize from Allen Lanham, dean of library services.

EDIBLE, from page 1
“Yertle the Turtle” consisted of turtles made of homemade bread and
hot dogs, Jell-O, a sweet potato and
onion grass to recreate the cover of
the famous Dr. Seuss book.
“The Gourd of the Rings” created by David Miller, a faculty member
at Information Technology Services,
won the People’s Choice Award.

Abriana Iwanski, a junior English
major, said her favorite edible artwork
was “Gourd of the Rings.”
“It was really done well with incorporating all the foods,” Iwanski said.
Deborah Fennema, the senior library specialist, said she enjoyed the
word play with “The Gourd of the
Rings.”

Bruns said he could not believe
how the edible artworks were made.
“I’m impressed and amazed at the
amount of work people put into it,”
Bruns said. “It blows my mind.”
Amanda Wilkinson can be
reached at 581-2812
or akwilkinson@eiu.edu.

DEMOLISH, from page 1

TRANSGENDER, from page 1

“ That was the last chunk of
coal I think this campus will ever
burn,” Reed said.
The university now uses biomass energy from the Renewable
Energy Center, which opened on
Oct. 7, 2011.
Chad Weber, the project manager of the Facilities Planning and
Management Office, said the cost
of the “Old Scrubber” demolition
work was built into the $79 million project for the Renewable Energy Center.
He said the demolition will be a
six-to-eight week process and will
be completed around the beginning of May.
Before demolition began, they
disconnected the electrical wire
system that fed the scrubber and
isolated the piping and water lines,
Reed said. Then, they had to vacuum out residual materials from the
scrubber system.
He said the majority of the metal scrap being torn down is recycled, and chunky bottom ash was
given to county highway departments that mix the ash with rock
salt for deicing.
They needed to demolish the
scrubber system to accommodate
for the Master Plan, Weber said.
According to the Master Plan,

Ferris said the transgender community includes those who dress as
another sex, surgically changes sexes
or are born a different sex than now.
Ferris also explained the different
challenges including bathroom use,
living arrangements, discrimination
and mental issues while identifying
with a certain gender.
“It’s like someone who identifies
as a man and gets his period is like
‘I’m a man, why do I have my period?’” Ferris said. “Or someone who
identifies as a woman ‘I’m a woman,
why don’t I have my period?’”
Abby Wilburn, a sophomore sociology major and the action director
for EIU Pride, said she thought the
presentation went really well.
“I think it opened a lot of people’s
eyes to issues they didn’t know existed in the transgender community,”
Wilburn said.
Ferris also shared some of the laws
in Illinois.
Illinois laws states that the transgender community is safe from discrimination, allows for name changes, but restricts that transgenders can
only get married if the documentation has two different sexes.
Stephanie Gribbin, a junior English major, said she found the laws
interesting.
“I think it was a good overview

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Matt Hayden of Hayden Wrecking Corp. walks away from piled scrap metal
from the old campus power plant during deconstruction on Thursday,
March 29.

the old coal plant will be repurposed into the new Student Services Building, and an addition to
the building would be constructed where the scrubber system was.
“However, we don’t know how
long before capital comes along for
the new Student Services Building, so in the meantime we are going to develop it into an exterior
lounge instead of a open eyesore,”
Reed said.
The courtyard area will have a

sidewalk extension along with different plantings and benches.
“We did not want to keep that
space empty like someone who
knocks a tooth out of your head
a n d yo u’re s m i l i n g w i t h a b i g
blank in there,” Reed said.

Rachel Rodgers can
be reached at 581-2812
or rjrodgers@eiu.edu.

of transgender issues, especially for
those who don’t know about them,”
Gribbin said. “I thought the laws in
Illinois were interesting because it’s
really relevant for any transgender
students on campus.”
Wilburn said she thought the presentation will help to open up people’s hearts.
“I think it helps people be more
aware and become more sensitive to
other peoples’ needs,” Wilburn said.
Ferris said she thinks Eastern students should be more aware of social
issues that affect a variety of people.
“I really just want the audience to
take away their own thoughts and
maybe look into things and think
about what gender is and what it
means,” Ferris said.
Ferris said she hopes people
learned from the presentation.
“You are suppose to learn something new every day, so someone can
come out, step outside their comfort zone and submerge in a culture
they are not necessarily use to,” Ferris said. “I think that is learning, and
it’s just a beautiful thing. We should
all step outside our box.”
Samantha McDaniel can be
reached at 581-2812
or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.

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Eastern’s women’s golf team recorded a fourth-place tie with host
Bradley at the Bradley Invitational
in Peoria over the weekend.
T h e Pa n t h e r s c o m p e t e d a t
the par 72, 6,092-yard, WeaverRidge Golf Club against nine other schools.
Redshirt freshman Tiffany Wolf
led all Panther golfers with a threeround total of 238 to tie for 13th

place. Junior Lauren Williams followed with a 240 as she tied for
18th, while Junior Emily Calhoon
tied for 24th with a score of 243.
Other Panthers that contributed to the team’s success were senior
Kathryn Koester and sophomore
Emily Fitzgerald, who placed tied
for 29th and 55th, respectively.
Northern Iowa took the top spot
in both team and individual honors.
Southern Illinois placed second,
and Indiana State finished third.
The next event for the wom-

en will be their last of the season.
They have two weeks to prepare for
the OVC Championships in Nashville, Tenn., at the Greystone Golf
Course, April 21-24. The women
will need to get to work in order
to improve last year’s finish of sixth
place out of eight schools.

Anthony Catezone can be
reached at 581-7942 or
at ajcatezone@eiu.edu.

NFL

NFL turns down Payton’s appeal
Staff Report

Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS

Sophomore Ashleigh Westover throws a ground ball to first base during
the game against Murry State on Sunday, April 1 at Williams Field. The
Panthers fell to Murry State 3-0.

SOFTBALL, from page 8
The middle infield combo of Carly Willert and Bailey O’Dell was also
very effective at the dish. Willert went
four-for-10 in the weekend series,
driving in three big RBIs. O’Dell,
who has been the catalyst for the team
at the plate, recorded a .333 batting
average with three runs scored and a
walk.
Easterns’ pitching was once again
lights out. The sophomore tandem
consisting of Stephanie Maday and
Hanna Mennenga combined for an
ERA of 1.33 in the three game series.
Maday went 2-0 for the weekend,
pitching 14 innings and only allowing
three runs (two earned) on eights hits
and six walks. She also recorded six
strikeouts. Mennenga was once again
consistent in her outing. She picked
up a win after going seven innings
and only allowing three runs (two
earned) on four hits and three walks.
She also recorded six strikeouts.
Easterns’ next game will come this
Tuesday against Indiana State at Terre
Haute, Ind. The first pitch will be
thrown at 2 p.m.
Head Coach Kim Schuette and

her Panther team are really enjoying
themselves on the field and hope to
continue their hot streak.
“We are taking one day at a time,
and they are enjoying the game,
each other, and each opportunity,”
Schuette said.
The Panthers will likely send ace
Stephanie Maday to the mound for
the start. Maday is 11-8 for the season with an ERA of 1.93. In 134.1
innings pitched, she has recorded a
team-high 123 strikeouts. She has
also thrown a team-high 11 complete
games.
Indiana State has struggled so far
this season and will enter Tuesday’s
contest with an overall record of 1322. They have a Missouri Valley Conference record of 1-11. They will likely give Lindsey Beisser the start on the
mound. Beisser is 6-13 this season
with a 2.02 ERA. In 128.1 innings
pitched, she has struck out 123 batters and only allowed 46 walks.
Erik Jensen can
be reached at 581-7942
or eajensen@eiu.edu.

According to ESPN, New Orleans Saints head coach and Eastern
alum Sean Payton had his appeal of
his season-long suspension turned
down by NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell. Payton is set to begin his
suspension on April 16, and it will
conclude after Super Bowl XLVII in
New Orleans, La.

Payton and his coaching staff are
under scrutiny from the NFL as
they were running a bounty scheme
that would reward defensive players for hard hits and forces injuries.
As a result of the ruling, the Saints
were handed a $500,000 fine, as
well as the forfeiture of their 2012
and 2013 second-round draft picks.
The NFL did announce on Monday that there could be a modifica-

tion on the 2013 draft pick penalty, as well as a possible reduction in
the fine.
During Payton’s suspension, he is
prohibited from engaging in coaching activities but has been busy at
work laying out offseason training programs and the beginning of
training camp before his suspension
comes into effect on April 16.

State
Blackhawks may get Toews back
By The Associated Press

CHICAGO— Jonathan Toews skated swiftly up the ice as the center on a
star-filled line with Patrick Kane and
Marian Hossa. And when it was time
to work on the power play, Toews'
familiar No. 19 was camped in front
of the net.
His presence and energy at Monday's hour long practice suggested
Toews will be ready to return to the
Chicago Blackhawks lineup when
the playoffs begin Thursday night
in Phoenix. The team captain and
one of Chicago's biggest stars hasn't
played in a game since Feb. 19, missing the final 22 regular-season games
with a concussion.
There's a bit of rust, although
Toews has been skating for a month,
and a question of conditioning under game stress. And will he have any
setbacks? A final decision on whether he'll play in the opener against the

Coyotes might not be announced
until just before the game.
"I'm very confident. .... We'll see
when that time comes," Toews said.
"It's playoff time right now, especially these last few games you don't
know what to expect from other teams in the regular season, especially teams that aren't going to
be in in the playoffs. So we want to
err on the cautious side by me not
playing."
Toews has 29 goals and 28 assists in 59 games this season. He's
a strong defensive player, as well,
and the team's leader. But the
Blackhawks have regrouped during
his absence and played well in the
stretch to finish with 101 points,
good for the sixth seed in the Western Conference.
"I want to come back to the lineup and fit right in. The boys have
been playing really well. At the
same time I feel like I have missed

out on a lot when you are out of the
lineup for almost two months, you
are missing out on a lot of things,"
Toews said.." Not always on the ice,
but in the locker room, too. And on
the road."
Toews said it's not realistic to expect him to be the same player he
was right away.
"I just want to go out and play
well and do the little things well. I
think at this point that is all I need
to do," he said. "I said it before I'm
not going to go out there and try
to do too much, go out there and
score three goals right away. Those
sort of things just happen, just go
out and play hard and let things
happen."
Patrick Sharp said if Toews is able
to play, he expects he'll be effective
against a Phoenix team that beat
the Blackhawks three times in four
games this season and has a red-hot
goalie in Mike Smith.

@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: Sophomore Luke Bushur will start on the mound against Illinois for #EIU baseball.

Jay Spoonhour was officially introduced as the new Eastern head
men's basketball coach at a press
conference Monday in Lantz Arena.
Spoonhour was introduced by
university president Bill Perry, vice
president of student affairs Dan
Nadler and athletic director Barbara Burke, and Spoonhour said
it has been his dream to become a
Division-I head coach.
“For anybody that gets a job in
something that’s been a dream of
theirs, I don’t know how you start
thanking people,” he said.
Spoonhour was also thankful of
the opportunity he was given to
coach the Panthers.
“The opportunity that I've been
given by Dr. Perry, by Ms. Burke,
by Dr. Nadler, by everybody here,
I'm the most thankful person, you
can't imagine,” he said.
Growing up in a basketball family, as the son of legendary coach
Charlie Spoonhour, Jay said he has
wanted to be a basketball coach
since he was a young age.
“This isn’t like I decided to be
a coach when I got to college, I
knew that this is what I wanted
to be when I was in about fourth
grade,” he said. “It’s not as though
I haven’t been a coach the last fifteen, sixteen years, I have been. Everybody wants to be at the Division-I level.”
Spoonhour said he wants the
chance to do great things at East-

ern, a place he knows where great
things can be accomplished.
“You want the crack at trying
to do something great at a place
where it can be done with people
you want to be around,” he said.
“So, when it finally happens for
you, what can you say? You’re just
really excited, you’re really thankful, and you’re really hopeful.”
Spoonhour said he shares the
same hope of Panther fans, that
good things can happen at Eastern.
“I think I share what a lot of you
fans have, and that’s I am hopeful
we can really do the kind of stuff
you want to have done,” he said.
“I'm gonna tell you, it's so much
fun when things are really going
good.”
Spoonhour said he is excited for
fans of Eastern basketball to be excited again.
“For folks that are Panther fans,
I can’t wait for the time when
you're like, ‘Man, I cannot wait for
that game’ or ‘we gotta get there
early because they’re gonna close it
down,'” he said. “That stuff 's fun.”
Members of Eastern’s men’s basketball team expressed their feelings toward the hire, saying Spoonhour is a good fit for the program.
“I think it was a great hire. I
think he’s a good fit,” junior James
Hollowell said. “When I found out
we had him as a coach, I was excited and ready to get going.”
Junior Austin Akers said he is
excited to work with Spoonhour.
“I’m just excited to get on the
court with coach Spoonhour,” Akers
said. “I talked to him today a little
bit, congratulated him, shot him a
text, and I’m just ready to get start-

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Jay Spoonhour, the new men’s basketball head coach, speaks with fellow co-workers, panther club members and
Charleston residents after the press conference Monday in Lantz Arena. “Everybody wants to be at the Division-I
level. You want the crack at trying to do something great at a place where it can be done with people you want to
be around,” said Spoonhour. Spoonhour is the third Division I head coach in Eastern’s basketball history.

ed.”
Freshman Josh Piper said Spoonhour is the type of coach that can
take Eastern to the next level.
“I thought he was a great hire.
He seems like a really good guy,”
Piper said. “I think he will be able
to move this university to the next
level. I’ve only met him briefly, but
I really look forward to playing for
him.”
Piper said Spoonhour’s success

at the junior college level is a great
quality that he can bring to the
Panthers.
“He has shown that he can win,
and he won a championship at the
JUCO level, and I think that’s a
good quality in winning,” he said.
Spoonhour hasn’t made a decision yet on his assistant coaching
staff and will now begin to focus on
recruiting for the upcoming season.

Dominic Renzetti &
Anthony Catezone
can be reached at 581-7942
or densportsdesk@gmail.com.

Eastern’s baseball team is coming
off of a series split against the Ohio
Valley Conference leading Austin
Peay, and it will look to add to its
recent success with a win against
in-state foe Illinois today in Champaign.
In the series against Austin Peay,
the Panthers turned in two performances that were deserving of wins,
but a defensive miscue with two
outs in the bottom of the ninth inning cost the Panthers a win against
the Governors.
Although the Panthers were not
able to record a win, the pitching
staff turned in an impressive performance, striking out 20 Austin
Peay batters in the 17-inning thriller. Junior Troy Barton led the way
for Eastern’s pitching staff, record-

ing a career-high eight strikeouts
while red-shirt senior Mike Hoekstra added seven strikeouts in six innings of work.
The Panthers suffered a hardfought loss in the opener of the series but showed resiliency in the series finale as they came away with a
2-1 victory on a walk-off RBI single
by redshirt junior George Kalousek
in the bottom of the ninth inning.
“Our motto heading into the
weekend was ‘finding a way to win
a tough game,’” Eastern head coach
Jim Schmitz said. “I was really impressed how the guys bounced back
after the tough loss in game one.”
For the series, the Panthers offensive attack was paced by freshman third baseman Brant Valach
and junior outfielder Nick Priessman. Valach led the way for Eastern, recording hits in five of his
11 at-bats as well as belting his
first collegiate home run of his career. He also added three RBI’s in
the weekend series. Priessman was
also efficient at the plate as he recorded hits in six of his 12 at-bats,
smashed a solo home run and drove
in an RBI against Austin Peay.
The Panthers will be back in ac-

By Erik Jensen
Staff Reporter

Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS

Junior infielder Nathan Sopena dives safely back to first as Austin Peay
senior infielder Tyler Childress tries to tag him out. The Panthers won the
game at Coaches Stadium 2-1 after falling short earlier 8-7 in a 17 inning
bout on Saturday, April 7.

tion against the Fighting Illini today at 6:05 p.m. and will round out
the mid-week games against Illinois
College on Wednesday.

Jordan Pottorff can be reached
at 581-7942 or
at jbpottorff@eiu.edu.

Eastern’s softball team improved
its overall record to 20-15 and its
conference record to 10-6 after its
series sweep of Ohio Valley Conference foe Tennessee State.
The Panthers have been on a roll
as of late as they have won their last
five games. They have also picked
up a victory in seven of their past
eights games.
Junior outfielder Melise Brown
led Eastern at the plate against Tennessee State. For the series, she hit
for an average of .538 and recorded seven hits in 13 at bats. She also
scored four runs and drove in five
RBIs.
Senior catcher Hailee Hanna
proved to be a force at the plate.
She recorded three hits in six at
bats with an RBI. Sophomore first
baseman Reynae Hutchinson continued her strong streak of good
games in the batters box. She recorded a .400 batting average and
drove in two runners in the weekend series.
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